Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Fortnightly round-up (11 April)

There has been a spate of food stores adjoining cafes/restaurants opening in the last few months: think Albert Street Food & Wine, and the Mini Marche at Hardware Societe. Now Southern Thai cafe Middle Fish has also started stocking Thai ingredients that they use in their dishes for you to take home (I was particularly taken with the Police Dog Brand tins). Bubbly proprietor Pla is only too happy to explain to you how the products are best used.

Coming soon to a blog near you: an article about lots and lots of different small batch gins and tonics (here's a sneak preview). It's taken a long while, but I've nearly finished it. I've been reading some gin literature as part of my research, and have particularly enjoyed The Bartender's Gin Compendium by Gaz Regan, and Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason by Jessica Warner.

céleri rémoulade (quite possibly my favourite salad of all time. OF ALL TIME!);

and a rather scary looking flourless chocolate cake. Who needs Easter eggs?

Links of Note:

- Mel wrote a great post about the ethics of restaurant food blogging on Fooderati. I really wish all bloggers would abide by these principles - the bad apples that don't give the rest of us a bad name. I like too that Mel included some advice for restaurants as well: don't encourage bad behaviour by courting it!

- Food blog ethics aren't just confined to the "dining out" blogs: the vexed issue of recipe copyright keeps cropping up on "dining in" blogs. Local bloggers Green Gourmet Giraffe and Confessions of a Food Nazi have written about it, noting that the author of Lambs' Ears and Honey has posted a follow up post to the original one that sparked the controversy.

- Also drooling over photos of new Sydney restaurant Sixpenny on The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry. I'm heading up to Sydney next month: now taking suggestions on where I should eat and drink...

8 comments:

Happy Easter Claire, I miss your blog, haven't been looking back much since i've graduated from unimelb, anyway i'll be heading back soon for a short trip and will be take notes of your upcoming haunts!

Another great round-up, Claire! Sounds like you had an awesome break and a number-one-with-a-bullet remoulade probably didn't hurt! Awesome to hear that you'll be back in Sydney soon. Definitely try Sixpenny if you have the time (or pence!) And you may like the weekend Japanese brunch at Kuki Tanuki given your pro-Convent breakfast (which covers similar culinary territory). Thanks also for the kind mention! I'm lucky that Will takes pretty great photos.